Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
If you can imagine a society in which the computer - robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.
Alan J. Perlis
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous